Sparrow
Veteran
Without: Late afternoon here with clear skies ... f8 and a half and 1/film-speed. So lets say I load a roll of film and shoot it in these conditions at that setting and develop it in my normal way, what does the contact sheet look like? ... well oddly it looks all the same, all the highlights have the same density and all the shadows the same detail (I know this as I do it most of the time)
When I print it, it will all prints on the same grade, at the roughly the same exposure ... or did when I wet printed
With a meter: On the same day with a metered camera I'll find myself slavishly following the meter, and paying more attention to it than to taking the photos. So shots with a lot of shadow will be overexposed and those with little shadow underexposed (I discovered this when I got my first ttl in 1974)
The resulting contact sheet will be all over the place and would be a bugger to print.
I do realise a meter is needed in poor or difficult light, that's why I carry one, but that is really not that often
When I print it, it will all prints on the same grade, at the roughly the same exposure ... or did when I wet printed
With a meter: On the same day with a metered camera I'll find myself slavishly following the meter, and paying more attention to it than to taking the photos. So shots with a lot of shadow will be overexposed and those with little shadow underexposed (I discovered this when I got my first ttl in 1974)
The resulting contact sheet will be all over the place and would be a bugger to print.
I do realise a meter is needed in poor or difficult light, that's why I carry one, but that is really not that often
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
It was hazy day in Toronto. I took 16 exposures with 645 folder, by Sunny 16 rule.
Buppha Thai. by Ko.Fe., on Flickr
Chess.
Meets my expectations for amateur film photography.
Another example with FED-2 and I-26M.
